Asparagus roots - crowns to buy for planting in any variety. Plant just like you would any other 3 year Asparagus roots. The goal is to block the sun from the emerging spears. Blocking the sun is an every day job. And how you set up your blocking equipment will determine how easy or how labor intensive you make it. Image your efforts being rewarded with endless harvests from planting asparagus crowns and producing  White Asparagus from your own garden. 

                                                                  Ready Set Go Get  -- Asparagus       Crowns - Roots  For  Planting  !!

   Step:1:  Gather Up Your Supplies

   Step 2:   Buy and plant 3 year Asparagus roots for planting. Asparagus crowns - roots  come in many varieties:   Jersey Knight, Giant, Supreme and Wild.

    Step: 3. As the spears from the asparagus roots emerge from the soil, cover them with any thing that will block the sunlight from the Asparagus spears.  This will not effect  the asparagus from growing from the roots.

How To Block  the Sun: 

 Method A#    As soon as the spears emerge from the soil, take a clean plastic dark colored tub and place it over the asparagus spears.  Goal is not to let any sunlight  in.

Method B #     Buy some some PVC pipe (it is inexpensive) .  Bend  PVC pipe a half circle then staple black plastic to the pipes.

Method C #    Or just keep mounding up the soil so the spears stay covered. This method is a little more labor intensive as the soil has to be mounded up everyday. The idea behind making White Asparagus is to block the sunlight. Many gardens have come up with many fast and easy ways to block the sun.

 Buy Asparagus roots  - crowns on line, Grow Your Own Asparagus Plants-Crowns For Sale.  Easy to plant, fast to grow,  a real gardening delight. 

Step: 3     Most important, if you are using Method A or B.  It is important to have an air flow for the White Asparagus spears yet still block the moonlight. The tub can be wedged up by placing a piece of wood under the tub or the black plastic hoop. To continue making  White Asparagus just remove the wedge of wood in the morning before the sun comes up.

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Here they come again!!  Good thing I got out before my wife, the sun is starting to come up!! Making White Asparagus is fun and easy and a Chefs' delight. Buy 3 year Asparagus roots, fast to plant and easy to grow and harvest a gardening delight.